Top-ranked Naperville North started slowly but finished strong Thursday night. Real strong. After playing to a 1-1 tie through two quarters, the Huskies (4-0-1) blew away Downers Grove North (1-3-1) in the last two periods to win 6-1. Dan Shanahan and Brian Wellman had two goals apiece for the winners, and Rob Higgs and Dave Becker one goal each. "We were complacent and lackadaisical in the first half," Naperville coach Dave Bucher said. "Once we got a goal ahead, we felt...

Of all the nasty creatures available to haunt television during Halloween, why did they have to bring back the creepy little psycho doll from "Trilogy of Terror"? "I thought I'd destroy another generation," laughs Dan Curtis, the guy who originally threw the Zuni fetish doll at unsuspecting viewers 20 years ago. You remember the Zuni: A pint-size killing machine with an oversized head, razor-sharp teeth, a penchant for sharp objects and who terrorized Karen Black in the 1975 ABC made-for-TV thriller.

Without a doubt, the biggest television event of this new season is ABC's sprawling mini-series "War and Remembrance." Better programs may possibly emerge during the next few months, but none of them has been conceived on such an enormous scale as this 30-plus-hour, multipart wartime epic. Almost five years in the making, at a cost of more than $110 million, "War and Remembrance"-the first 18 hours of which will be seen over seven nights this month (beginning at 7 p.m....

Top-ranked Naperville North started slowly but finished strong Thursday night. Real strong. After playing to a 1-1 tie through two quarters, the Huskies (4-0-1) blew away Downers Grove North (1-3-1) in the last two periods to win 6-1. Dan Shanahan and Brian Wellman had two goals apiece for the winners, and Rob Higgs and Dave Becker one goal each. "We were complacent and lackadaisical in the first half," Naperville coach Dave Bucher said. "Once we got a goal ahead, we felt...

If every cloud has a silver lining, ABC's in the strike-ravaged fall has to be Herman Wouk's "War and Remembrance," the sequel to "The Winds of War." Critics from around the country who gathered in Los Angeles last week for a summer preview of the upcoming TV fare screened the rough cut of the first six hours; reaction generally was favorable. "Remembrance's" predecessor, "The Winds of War" generally was treated with scorn from the critics, though it was one of the top-rated...

Without a doubt, the biggest television event of this new season is ABC's sprawling mini-series "War and Remembrance." Better programs may possibly emerge during the next few months, but none of them has been conceived on such an enormous scale as this 30-plus-hour, multipart wartime epic. Almost five years in the making, at a cost of more than $110 million, "War and Remembrance"-the first 18 hours of which will be seen over seven nights this month (beginning at 7 p.m....

Of all the nasty creatures available to haunt television during Halloween, why did they have to bring back the creepy little psycho doll from "Trilogy of Terror"? "I thought I'd destroy another generation," laughs Dan Curtis, the guy who originally threw the Zuni fetish doll at unsuspecting viewers 20 years ago. You remember the Zuni: A pint-size killing machine with an oversized head, razor-sharp teeth, a penchant for sharp objects and who terrorized Karen Black in the 1975 ABC made-for-TV thriller.

If every cloud has a silver lining, ABC's in the strike-ravaged fall has to be Herman Wouk's "War and Remembrance," the sequel to "The Winds of War." Critics from around the country who gathered in Los Angeles last week for a summer preview of the upcoming TV fare screened the rough cut of the first six hours; reaction generally was favorable. "Remembrance's" predecessor, "The Winds of War" generally was treated with scorn from the critics, though it was one of the top-rated...

Dear Tom, My friend who lives in Charlotte, N. C., says they never get lightning strikes in their area--just some lightning that lights up the sky, but no strikes. How come? Debbie Malysz Dear Debbie, Your friend is grossly misinformed. Winter and summer, lightning is a life-threatening occurrence everywhere in the United States--everywhere--and that includes Charlotte, N.C. The National Weather Service says Charlotte experiences about 50 days per year...

Garby Francis Leon , an executive at 20th Century Fox who developed "The Matrix" while at Silver Pictures, where he also worked on "Lethal Weapon IV" and "The Manchurian Candidate" remake, died April 21 after a long battle with cancer. He was 66. Leon had been a story analyst at Fox since the mid 2000s. Before that, from 1997-99, he was VP of production at Fox Family Films, where he developed "Ever After," "Home Alone III" and...

The national Do Not Call registry overcame its last legal hurdle Monday when the Supreme Court let stand a lower-court ruling affirming its constitutionality. The justices rejected an appeal by telemarketers who argued that the popular anti-telemarketing registry imposed unconstitutional limits on their rights to free speech. 2ND TRIAL STARTS: The second murder trial of serial killings suspect Derrick Todd Lee began Monday with a prosecutor saying DNA is "the silent witness." Authorities...

Jonathan Frid, best known for starring as vampire Barnabas Collins in ABC's supernatural soap opera "Dark Shadows," died of natural causes on Friday, April 13, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He was 87. Frid had recently shot a cameo in Tim Burton's bigscreen adaptation of "Dark Shadows," in which Johnny Depp plays Barnabas. That film is set to premiere on May 11. The original "Dark Shadows" series, created by Dan Curtis, ran for almost 600 episodes from 1967-71. Frid also starred in...